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clem
January 11, 2003, 11:10 AM
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VDARE.COM - http://www.vdare.com/francis/more_welcome.htm

South Africans vs. Somalis: Some Immigrants Are More Welcome Than Others
By Sam Francis

Well now, it's a relief to see that as 2003 begins, the U.S. government is finally getting tough with illegal immigrants.

From South Dakota comes news that the Immigration and Naturalization Service has ordered an entire family of immigrants to pack up and get out. They were supposed to have left this week, but whether they managed to finagle the laws to stay here I don't know. [VDARE.COM NOTE: our immigration law expert Juan Mann advises that the most effective thing any INS-threatened illegal can do is simply vanish – as Denver Post pinup-boy Jesus Apodaca has now apparently done, despite massive publicity.]

What I do know is that the immigrants are a law-abiding, church-going, productive white family—from South Africa.

No wonder they have to go.

With Mexican illegals pouring across the borders and drenching the country in illegal drugs and Somalis in Maine bankrupting local welfare roles, President Bush is pondering amnesty for the Mexicans and the Democrats are demanding amnesty for all illegals.

But all the "compassionate conservatism" in the White House and the rest of the swill the political class feeds us do nothing for the Steenkamp family.

The Steenkamps—a couple in their 30s with two young children—came to this country in 2001, paying borrowed money to a con artist who promised to get them legal admission to the United States and escape from the rising tides of black terror now engulfing post-apartheid South Africa. Once arrived in the United States, the Steenkamps found themselves deserted by their vanishing benefactor, who was soon busted for running an immigrant smuggling ring.

The Steenkamps got help from Americans, but the INS advised them to leave the country and re-enter from Mexico—which they did. They got parole status and wound up with temporary work visas in Warner, S.D., where they joined the local church, worked, and became part of the community.

"He's an excellent individual," the local farmer who hired Wessel Steenkamp says. "They're not just people who sit in the pew," their pastor reports. "They've really entered into close friendships."

So far no reports about drug-pushing or welfare.

Nevertheless, the INS, eagle-eyed for any infraction of the immigration laws, spied them out and told them they had to leave. Desperately, the Steenkamps applied for political asylum on the grounds of the emerging anarchy that afflicts their native country, the reason they left in the first place.

Sorry, the mass murder of whites because of their race, which is what's beginning in South Africa, is not a legitimate ground for claiming asylum. The attacks in South Africa, you see, are "criminal," not "racial." Never mind that the New York Times and other papers have repeatedly carried reports on the racial targeting of whites by black marauders in South Africa. Never mind that last year there were some 1,400 attacks on white-owned farms in South Africa, with 200 whites killed, on top of some 700 killed in the previous five years.

Anti-white terrorism? Where?

Meanwhile, not only in Maine, but also in Minnesota, not too far from where the dangerous Steenkamp family has invaded, Somali immigrants have arrived to demonstrate the advantages of multicultural diversity. I wrote about the Somalis of Lewiston, Maine, some weeks ago. Now a reader from Minnesota writes me about the Somalis in her area.

“60,000 Somalis,” she writes, “took over an area of Minneapolis that was once a community where American Indians lived. Somalis, who are culturally violent, took to drug running and sending money to Al Quaeda. The FBI has shut down some of their money wiring activities, but the situation has caused a great deal of negative social change. Most Indians had to move out for fear of the constant shootings. Local stores had to put up glass in front of cashiers, because the Somalis spit at the cashiers. People complain about their lack of hygiene (they don't shower their bodies, only their feet) and high rate of tuberculosis. On 9/11 the high school had to be shut down, since Somali teens cheered and American kids fought back, creating a riot. They had a riot a while ago wielding machetes at police. When war comes to America, we know who we'll be fighting in the streets, just watch the movie 'Blackhawk Down.' Why are our enemies living here?"

Actually, the question should be, why does the U.S. government, so eager to round up and kick out the decent Steenkamp family despite all the gabble about being "a nation of immigrants," allow and even encourage the garbage of Africa to come here at all and do nothing to force them out?

Why does it allow millions of illegal aliens from Mexico to invade the country every year—and threaten to punish Americans who try to stop it?

And finally, why does any American who understands how his own government is already waging war against its own people seriously believe that it really remains his government at all?

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January 09, 2003


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4v50 Gary
January 11, 2003, 03:08 PM
Something has gone terribly wrong. We let in people who turn out to be criminals and then we don't deport them. Here we have someone skilled in farming who wants to farm and we want him out? :mad:

DeltaElite
January 11, 2003, 03:18 PM
Truly sad, I hope they can get this situation corrected.
Sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh:mad:

Blackhawk
January 11, 2003, 11:00 PM
SNAFU is the acronym for the words that describe this.

nualle
January 12, 2003, 12:03 PM
Might be if it were true. I live in Minneapolis. Somalis are not "culturally violent," as this anecdotalist contends. Instead, they are widely reputed among employers to be scrupulously honest. For that reason (and the fact that, like many new immigrants, they are willing to work for a pittance), they are often to be seen working in cash-handling positions, such as parking lot attendants.

The "riot" referred to was no riot. It was a single man, with a known history of mental illness, wielding a machete. He did not speak English. The police have translators and specialist officers trained to deal with the mentally ill who they could have called in. They also had bilingual Somali bystanders who could have translated. They tried none of these resources. Instead, they shot the guy. I'm not saying that was a wrong choice... I don't know if it was or not. But in no way was it a riot.


Edited to add: Oh, BTW... the Native Americans who used to live in the notoriously poor Phillips neighborhood have not been chased out by nastyawful Somalis. According to the "Ojibwe News" (Vol. 15, Issue 30 -- Jan. 3, 2003 -- page 4), they've been moving to the slightly more affluent Powderhorn and Seward neighborhoods.

JohnBT
January 12, 2003, 03:12 PM
nualle - I'm not surprised the facts in that article aren't true.

I hadn't heard of VDARE, so I checked out the site. They say they are a group promoting English and our heritage, but the President of the sponsoring group states that he wanted to use Virginia Dare (VDARE, get it?), the name of the first English child born in the New World, as a name in book about the last white family to leave L.A. but was talked out of it.

A thinly veiled agenda I'd say.

John

Zander
January 12, 2003, 05:41 PM
What...isn't anyone going to try refuting the facts about the Steenkamps?

Or that whites are an endangered species in South Africa, a country run by a die-hard Marxist determined to aid and abet the murder, rape and robbery of whites and the theft of their properties by blacks?

How 'bout the fact that race riots have occurred in Minneapolis, one as recently as 22Aug02 in Jordan.

How 'bout Officer Melissa Schmidt? Oh...never mind, she was white.

Oleg Volk
January 12, 2003, 07:43 PM
When I lived in Minneapolis (up until a year ago), I had several Somali and Ethopian neighbors, all nice people. One of the nastiest Minneapolis neighborhoods got "rehabilitiated" by Loatian and North African immirants over the last several years. The article seemed to be very much non-factual to me.

Malone LaVeigh
January 12, 2003, 09:11 PM
Maybe they're confusing South Africa with Zimbabwe? Last I heard, there weren't any official government programs in SA to assault whites or take their lands, as there apparently are in Zimbabwe. If the situation is bleak in SA, then it's from crime, not government-sanctioned oppression. We might feel sorry for them for that, but I don't see how the US govt could offer sanctuary from a high crime rate.

They're illegal. I'm surprised that the fact that they're white seems to make a difference for some folks here.

Pawcatch
January 13, 2003, 12:44 AM
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong,but couldn't the Steenkamps have moved to the U.K. or Canada a lot easier?

Zander
January 13, 2003, 12:49 AM
Last I heard, there weren't any official government programs in SA to assault whites or take their lands, as there apparently are in Zimbabwe.LOL! Official programs? You need to do a little research on current-day SA.

Let's just say that I can completely agree with the Steenkamps' decision if not their method. SA has become one of the most dangerous countries in the world, rife with corruption and sliding further into anarchy each day.

nualle
January 13, 2003, 09:23 AM
I don't deny that Minneapolis suffers deep racial tensions. What I deny is that Somali immigrants are causing it.
Published on August 24, 2002, Page A1, St. Paul Pioneer Press (MN) [headline and byline snipped]
Minneapolis officials urged calm on Friday and planned heightened security in North Minneapolis in the aftermath of a melee that erupted after an 11-year-old boy was accidentally wounded by a police bullet the night before. ...
The neighborhood violence was in reaction not to this event alone but to two other police shootings in the neighborhood during that same August.

BTW... the neighborhood involved was Jordan (in North MPLS, peopled largely by Black non-immigrant Americans), not Phillips (in South MPLS, into which the Somali immigrants have been moving)... so bringing this up doesn't even make for a coherent argument.

Officer Schmidt's death was a tragedy felt by the whole town. She was killed by Martha Donald (who she shot and killed as well). I can find no information saying Donald was an immigrant, much less an illegal alien, so again, I fail to see how this is relevant to the thesis above.

wingman
January 13, 2003, 09:34 AM
One thing to me is certain, we need a
strong immigration policy that provide
a "limited" number of incoming people
per year, we cannot "take in" the world.
The average taxpayer now pays approx.
$2400 per year for illegal immigration.

We no longer live in the 1800's where
we can swing the door open for all if
we wish to maintain "any" freedom
or quality of life.

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